Gregorio Luperón International Airport

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Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
IATA: POP – ICAO: MDPP
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom)
Location Sosua, Puerto Plata in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic
Elevation AMSL 15 ft / 5 m
Coordinates 19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W / 19.75778, -70.57
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
Statistics (2007 Jan-Jun)
Aircraft operations 18,756
Passengers 822,977
Based Aircraft 12
Sources: Departamento Aeropuertuario[1] and DAFIF[2][3]
Pico Isabel de Torres with a ThomsonFly.com 767-300
Pico Isabel de Torres with a ThomsonFly.com 767-300

Gregorio Luperón International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón) (IATA: POP, ICAO: MDPP), also known as Puerto Plata Airport, is located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. It is the Dominican Republic's second largest airport, after Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo. The airport is named after General Gregorio Luperón, a Dominican military and state leader.

Capable of handling planes of all sizes, Puerto Plata Airport has benefited from being in an area with many beaches, which are popular among charter airline passengers. The popularity of the city where it is located has also drawn a number of regularly scheduled passenger airlines over the years.

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[edit] Main terminal

The main terminal building has 10 gates; 5 with boarding bridges on the satellite concourse, and 5 without in the frontal concourse. The terminal can support three Boeing 747-400s simultaneously.

[edit] Incidents

On February 6, 1996, Birgenair Flight 301 was bound for Frankfurt, Germany, but crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata Airport into the Atlantic Ocean 26 kilometres off-shore. All 176 passengers and 13 crew members, among them 164 Germans, were killed. It was discovered later that one of the air speed indicators of the Boeing 757-200 was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the plane's speed was too fast or too slow.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Domestic destinations

[edit] Cargo carriers

Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.
Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Departamento Aeropuertuario
  2. ^ Airport information for MDPP at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
  3. ^ Airport information for POP at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.

[edit] External links


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